English Explanatory Dictionary

stad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. town, village
name
  1. A municipality of Vestland, Norway.

Word forms

stad stads

Etymology

From Afrikaans and Dutch stad (“city, town”), from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”). Doublet of stead.

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